Mop head



March Y 2 5 `1924.

f 1,488,021 MMMMMM N O immuun f i v l v v Patented Mar. 25,

tremano trenino, or nocnnsanr., nnw'ronn.

Mor nnen.

Application filed May 18,

To. all whom it' may concern:

Be it known that 1, Mannino lllnninma subject of the-'Kingofwlltaly,residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe fand 5 State of New York,have invented certa-in new and useful Improvements in Mop Heads; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the ae- 10 companyingdrawings, forming al part of this specification and to the referencenumerals marked thereon.

My present invention relates to brushing and scrubbing and moreparticularly to floor mops and analogous devices and it has for itsobject to provide a strong and efficient mop head that will beconvenient to manipulate while inserting or removing a mop, and which.will be clean and durable in use. To these and other ends the inventionresides in certain improvements and combinations of parts all as will behereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed outin the claims at the end of the specication.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front view of a mop head constructed in accordance withand illustrating one embodiment of my invention with a mop in placetherein.

Figure 2 is a side view thereof and Figure 3 is an enlarged sectionalview with the mop head partly broken away.

Similar reference numerals throughout the several views indicate thesame parts.

Although not necessarily made it is an object of my invention to producea mop head that may be produced at low cost by stampn ing it from sheetmaterial and in the present embodiment of my invention l haveillustrated a. mop head so made. VIt embodies a body portion 1 of ageneral T-shape and having an elongated transverse slot or opening 2 inthe head portion 3 thereof which latter furnishes a wide continuous edgea Vat the end for pressure against the floor or other surface upon whichthe mop is used. At the base of the body portion 1 the sheet material iscinled into tubular form to constitute a socket 5 in which the shaft orhandle 6 is fixed.

At each side of the head portion 3, ears 7 are struck up and providedwith bea-ring openings 8 for the reception of pivot lugs or trunnions 9on a clamping jaw 10. This clamping aw may have somewhat the gen- 1923.Serial No. 6382959.

eral shape of the head 3 and body portion 1 being, in the presentinstance, triangular with an opening 11 in the center and a handleportion 12 proceeding longitudinally ofv the body 1 and normally lyingparallel to and practically against the same.

The trunnions 9 are preferably in the plane of the aw member 10 andproceeding downwardly and thence rearwardly from the edge of the latterin the vicinity of the trunnion is a clamping lip 13 runningtransversely of the head portion 3 to present a long, narrow drippingsurface spaced slightly from the head 3.

In use, the rope or other niop material 1-1- doubled over or wound aboutthe head portion 3 by being passed through the slot 2 as clearly shownin the figures, whereby the edge 4 lies between two layers of the mopand can be used in either direction to press the mop against the floorin swinging it about the ears 7 being angled or cut back as indicated at15 to permit this. After the mop has been so inserted in the head andpreviously thereto, the handle 12 of the jaw 10 occupies an outwardposition to which it is swung on the pivots 9 to carry the lip 13 awayfrom the head 3. To secure the mop the handle 12 is swung back to itsparallel position pressing the lip 13 which then swings inwardly againagainst the material of the mop pinching it against the lined member.The handle 12 is then caught beneath a suitable turn button 16 in thepresent form of a. met-al hook pivotally riveted at 17 in the body 1 andmovable' from the operative full line position to the dotted lineposition of Figure 1.

A mop head constructed in accordance with my invention particularly whenmade of sheet metal is very simple, being made of few parts readilyassembled.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a mop head, the combination with a body portion having a headprovided with a transverse slot and with lateral ears, of a clamping jawspanning the head adjacent to the slot and having a pivotal bearing inthe ears, said jaw being provided with a handle whereby it may be swunginto and out of clamping engagement with a mop passed through the slot,and means on the body portion for latching the handle against the latterto hold the aw in clamping position.

2. In a mop head, the combination with CJI llO

a body portion having a head provided with a transverse slot and withlateral ears, of a clamping jaw spanning the head adjacent to theslot'and having a pivotal bearing in the ears, said jaw being providedwith a handle whereby it may be swung into and out of clampingengagement with a mop passed through the slot, and means on the bodyportion for latohing the handle against the latter to hold the j aw inclamping position, said means embodying a laterally swinging hookpivot-ed in the body portion.

3. In a mop head the combination with a. body portion having a headprovided with a transverse slot and with lateral ears', of aV clampingjaw spanning the head and embodying a sheet metal plate provided withtrunnion lugs having pivotal bearings in the ears and'having adownwardly andthence rearwardly turned flange constituting a clampingsurface adapted to pinch a inop againstthe head at the edge of Ythe slotsaid jaw being also provided with a handle movable to a clampingposition against the body portion, and a latch on the latter forretaining the handle in such position.

MARIANO MARNO.

